Word: doles
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Former South Carolina Governor David Beasley built the fire walls that saved front runners Bob Dole and George W. Bush from insurgencies past. This year he's helping organize Huckabee's effort in what could be the make-or-break primary. Everything's ready; all he needs now is money. "He's perfectly positioned," Beasley said, as Huckabee's wave rose up north in Iowa. "The lack of performance by some other candidates, coupled with his extraordinary performance, has made Mike Huckabee viable...
...College got exactly what it asked for: a suspension of reimbursement for alcoholic beverages. While the party fund technically still exists, it can only be used to cover non-alcoholic expenses, which were never a source of contention in the first place.Some argue that the money the UC will dole out in the future for non-alcoholic party purchases is fungible. Party organizers, they claim, can simply use their own funds to cover adult beverages, the UC allotment to cover miscellaneous party supplies, and ultimately end up spending the same amount of their own money they would have even...
...billion NFLPA fund for retirees, the tax forms from 2006 show that only about 120 succeeded in obtaining disability benefits, for a total of approximately $9 million. The union, which is expected to work with management to provide for veterans who built the league, will simply not dole out the dough. Why in such a lucrative industry, do the heroes of America’s greatest game have to live in agony and poverty? Some, like former Jaguars guard Brian DeMarco, have been homeless. Others currently rely on the charity of old coaches. Upshaw claims that players understand the nature...
...deal enshrined by the Freedom to Farm law of 1996--except the part about no more subsidies. "The regular order took over," recalled Dan Glickman, a former Kansas Congressman who was President Clinton's Agriculture Secretary. "There was a lot of hefty intellectual discussion about weaning farmers off the dole, but of course, it didn't happen." Instead, GOP leaders agreed the next farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress would no longer...
...between the La Rouche representatives or the parading union activists and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger—beside the Ph.D.—is that the affectionately-termed “Cambridge crazies” are not subsidized by American taxpayers. That is, unless they are on the dole as well...